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    Japan Air Lines Flight 715 (日本航空 715便, Nihonkōkū 715 Bin) was an airplane that crashed in Malaysia on 27 September 1977. It was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8...
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    Malaysia portal Aviation portal Japan Air Lines Flight 715, which crashed within the same area 46 years prior. 1976 Sabah Air GAF Nomad crash, which also...
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  • a Japan Air Lines Convair 880 (leased from Japan Domestic Airlines) yawed left for unknown reasons after the nose lifted up during a training flight at...
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  • nose and both of its engines. All aboard survived the crash. Japan Air Lines Flight 715 – The McDonnell Douglas DC-8 descended below MDA of 750 feet,...
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  • Speed Lines in 1934. VAL flew the first privately contracted air mail flight in the U.S. on April 6, 1926. In 1927, William Boeing founded Boeing Air Transport...
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  • November 28 – Japan Air Lines Flight 446, a Douglas DC-8 operating an international flight from Copenhagen, Denmark to Tokyo, Japan via Moscow, USSR...
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    December 1960 United Air Lines Flight 826, a DC-8-11 (named Mainliner Will Rogers) collided over Staten Island, New York City with TWA Flight 266, a Lockheed...
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    League Most Valuable Player, NL batting champion 1938 and 1942 Japan Air Lines Flight 715 crashed into a hillside during its approach to Kuala Lumpur in...
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    engines. On May 15, 1963, Beechcraft began test flights of the proof-of-concept Model 87, a modified Queen Air with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-6 engines....
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    Airways Flight 38 Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 Lion Air Flight 904 Delta Air Lines Flight 723 Emirates Flight 521 Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 Korean Air Flight...
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    Lockheed U-2 (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    Aviation, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia 56-6714 – Beale Air Force Base, California 56-6721 – Production Flight Test Installation Air Force Plant 42 in...
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  • killing five children and injuring 19 other people. 27 September Japan Air Lines Flight 715, which carried 69 passengers and 10 crew members, has crashed...
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    Tokyo between a Japan Coast Guard DHC-8 aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to earthquake victims in Niigata and Japan Airlines Flight 516, an A350-900...
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    powerful Honeywell T55-715 engines along with an active parallel actuator system (APAS) to enhance the digital advanced flight-control system, providing...
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    Shōkaku's primary air defense consisted of sixteen 127 mm (5.0 in) Type 89 dual-purpose AA guns in twin mountings. These were sited below flight deck level on...
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     Burma Military casualties with the pro-Japanese Burma National Army were 400 killed in action, 1,500 other deaths, 715 missing, 2,000 wounded and 800 POW...
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    Naval Air Squadron 703 Naval Air Squadron 706 Naval Air Squadron 715 Naval Air Squadron 716 Naval Air Squadron 718 Naval Air Squadron 719 Naval Air Squadron...
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    engine. Made first flight on November 4, 1932. Two built. 17J Proposed single-seat military development of the Model 17 powered by a 715 hp (533 kW) Wright...
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    Aerolinie–CSA". Flight International: 562. 12 April 1962. Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013. "Air commerce..." Flight International:...
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    migration of a population of Song Sparrows Melospiza melodia". Ibis. 149 (4): 715–720. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00692.x. Walraff, H. G. (2005). Avian Navigation:...
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    Piercey "Another British First" a 1948 Flight article on the Viscount's first flight "Viscount in the Air a 1949 Flight article on flying the Viscount "Engineering...
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  • Aéreos—DETA". Flight International. 77 (2665): 498. 8 April 1960. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. "Air commerce..." Flight. 82 (2786): 158...
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    Conversion Flight RAAF  Canada Royal Canadian Air Force Three Avro Lincolns were in service with the RCAF from 1946 to 1948.  United Kingdom Royal Air Force...
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    to fly 7 Squadron out to the Far East to join Tiger Force for air attacks against Japan, the war ended before the squadron was due to move. The squadron...
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    Battle of the Coral Sea (category Naval battles of World War II involving Japan)
    May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia. Taking place...
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  • Johnson fame, is killed along with four others in the crash of Western Air Express Flight 7 in mountainous terrain near Saugus, California. January 19 – Howard...
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    source first compressed air, which was then mixed with fuel and burned for jet thrust. The Italian Caproni Campini N.1, and the Japanese Tsu-11 engine intended...
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    Royal Flight  Qatar Military of Qatar Qatar Amiri Flight  United Arab Emirates The Government of the United Arab Emirates  United Kingdom Royal Air Force...
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  • to land at Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, Japan Airlines Flight 715, a Douglas DC-8, crashes into a hill 6.5 km (4.0 mi) short of...
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  • a block of his own home recently while on a routine training flight from the Naval Air Base at Anacostia. He was taken to the Naval Medical Center at...
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